up: after two days of trial and error, a custom fitting creates the jig that connects the wood ribs to the lemon-shaped base, a spore launching fire-catapult gets built ten blocks away from its eventual home, a volunteer's job at a lab provides the solution (Paraffin wrap; Eureka!) for fuel evaporating from the spores during shipping. These are just a few of the dozens of stories that happen on the daily that are all a part of how big art gets built.

and gargantuan task on top of the logistics of admin, fundraising, crew-care, and sending a small army of people a week early to Black Rock City with a semi loaded with two containers to build and maintain the piece and crew camp in an environment where the unexpected is expected. Time is limited and the crew is focused, head down, straight-ahead, but the obvious reward is the piece and the community that is strengthened, yes, even battle-hardened, by its completion and the celebration that comes with it. xo, Thwen